Missouri

Finding the fossils of a large duck-billed dinosaur in southern Missouri is exciting enough, but a paleontologist who helped lead the dig believes there are many more in the same area.The latest fossils are a specimen of Parrosaurus missouriensis, first discovered at the same site in Bollinger County nearly 80 years ago but not confirmed as a new species until the latest dig.

COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) -- The University of Missouri announced Monday that it plans to spend $1.5 billion during the next 10 years to hire about 300 more teachers and staff to enhance the university's research mission.

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) -- A political action committee backing Republican Gov. Mike Parson is raising money with a new video highlighting his attacks on a Missouri newspaper that discovered a flaw in a state agency's cybersecurity and waited for it to be fixed before publishing a story.

COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) -- Help for roughly 100,000 teachers whose Social Security numbers were made vulnerable in a massive state data breach could cost Missouri as much as $50 million, House budget officials told Democratic lawmakers Tuesday.

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) -- Officials with the pension fund serving teachers and other public school employees in Missouri say they're reviewing safety protocols after a data breach last month.A notification on Friday from the Public School and Education Employee Retirement Systems of Missouri said the incident happened Sept.